Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?, sentence 6
Lemmings are small rodents related to voles, living on the tundra and mountains of Scandinavia, Russia, Canada and Alaska, eating grasses, moss and sedges.
Who acts: Lemmings, small rodents · What happens: be, live, eat · To what, where: small rodents, tundra, grasses
This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: do lemmings jump off cliffs?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lemmings, small rodents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lemmings | lemming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rodents | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rodents | cop |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rodents | amod |
| 4 | rodents | rodent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rodents | amod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 voles | case |
| 7 | voles | vole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 related | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 living | punct |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rodents | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 tundra | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tundra | det |
| 12 | tundra | tundra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mountains | cc |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tundra | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Scandinavia | case |
| 16 | Scandinavia | Scandinavia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tundra | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Russia | punct |
| 18 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Scandinavia | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Canada | punct |
| 20 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Scandinavia | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Alaska | cc |
| 22 | Alaska | Alaska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Scandinavia | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grasses | punct |
| 24 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 living | advcl |
| 25 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 eating | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 moss | punct |
| 27 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grasses | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sedges | cc |
| 29 | sedges | sedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 grasses | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rodents | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Lemmings | small rodents | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | small rodents not said here | the tundra of Scandinavia and Russia and Canada and Alaska and mountains | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tundra=Location | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | small rodents not said here | grasses and moss and sedges | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs.lesson:6.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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